NeMLA 2022 Panel: Queer Ecologies in Victorian Literature
updated:
Thursday, July 15, 2021 - 12:15pm
Shun Kiang / University of Central Oklahoma and Jacob Crystal / University of Tulsa
deadline for submissions:
Thursday, September 30, 2021
In Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (2013), Nicole Seymour writes, “In the past few years, queer ecology has emerged as a burgeoning area of interdisciplinary study,” (21) which traces and builds upon a host of “empathetic, ethical interrelationships between the queer and the non-human” (23). In a similar vein, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson state in “A Genealogy of Queer Ecologies” that “the task of a queer ecology is to probe the intersections of sex and nature with an eye to developing a sexual politics that more clearly includes considerations of the natural world and its biosocial constitution” (161).